Today's guest is Zakaria Jaiathe, Co-Founder and CEO at Xibit, the market leader in mixed reality brand experiences. Founded in 2019 in Berlin, Xibit is a mixed reality platform that can help your brand turn product presentations and company story into delightful brand experiences. Using cutting-edge technology, Xibit can help you increase your traffic by 200%, Dwell-Time by 40% and conversion rate by 30%. Xibit is trusted by world-class companies such as McKinsey, SAP, Techstars and many more.

In the show, Zakaria will tell you about:

Xibit’s work in improving customer engagement with Mixed Reality,

How Mixed Reality differentiates from AR and VR,

The challenges of implementing hand-tracking technology,

Experimenting with Mixed Reality in various business solutions,

Exciting use cases in how companies are benefiting from Xibit,

How to build Mixed Reality applications,

and Where Mixed Reality will impact the industry in the future

Today's guest is Doug Hamilton, Managing Director of Artificial Intelligence at Nasdaq. Founded in 1971, Nasdaq are the leading technology and information services provider to the capital markets. Their Global Trading and Market Services business have become a significant part of their client offerings.

All this can be traced to Nasdaq’s focus on synchronizing and optimizing market movement which is an essential principle in the growth of business economies. No one else provides customers with such a high level of infrastructure, tools and strategic insight. They are also acclaimed for our top-rated data offerings.

In the show, Doug will tell you about:

Impacting the Financial market through AI and Data Science,

The challenges of transitioning into a leadership role,

The evolution of automation at Nasdaq,

Building an effective data team,

Upcoming projects & initiatives that he is excited about,

and Why you should consider a career in the Fintech industry

Today's guest is Dr. Matt Lemon, Chief Information Security Officer at Huawei Ireland. Matt has 25 years of experience delivering business value in Security and Cloud by using his broad range of consulting, technical and managerial skills working with some great companies, translating technical requirements into conversations that boards and senior executives want to have.

Currently, he directs security operations for the mobile and cloud ecosystems. He manages the vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, red-teaming and, incident management functions among others. His role includes the assessment, upkeep and mitigation of security risks for cloud services in collaboration with R&D, security teams, O&M and privacy teams.

In the show, Matt will discuss:

How he got into Cybersecurity & his journey so far,

Different routes you can take into a career in Cybersecurity,

Career goals and his successes as a CISO,

Biggest challenges facing the role of a CISO,

Addressing the skills shortage in Cybersecurity,

& How he wants to be remembered in the Cybersecurity community

Today's guest is Jaroslav Blaha, CEO at CellmatiQ in Berlin. Founded in 2018, CellmatiQ develops an artificial intelligence platform for the automatic detection of relevant structures in medical images (e.g. dental X-rays) to support healthcare professionals in their diagnostics. The technology is equally applicable to industrial problems, like automatic analysis of structural features or anomalies of machine parts from images.

Cephalometric x-ray images are the diagnostic backbone of today’s dental practice; ranging from detection of caries or periodontal diseases via root canal treatments and prosthodontics to maxillofacial oncology. Their first product DentaliQ automates the identification of relevant diagnostic points in x-rays and reduces the analysis time from circa 15 minutes to mere seconds - thereby allowing dentists to focus more on their diagnostics and treatment plans.

In the show, Jaroslav will tell you about:

CellmatiQ’s work in the medical imaging space,

Benefits their products bring to clients, particularly in dentistry,

Creating a simple toolbox to scale several AI products,

The importance of getting your AI products medically certified,

Advice to companies on how to obtain medical certification,

How Germany can compete in becoming a global AI leader,

& The need to improve the EU’s data governance ecosystem

Today's guest is Robert Chen, Head of AI at Compass. Founded in 2012, Compass is a real estate technology company with a powerful end-to-end platform that supports the entire buying and selling workflow. They deliver an incomparable experience to both agents and their clients all in service of the Compass mission: to help everyone find their place in the world.

Robert has a deep passion is building large-scale machine learning systems that power customers and business and has previous experience working with Intel, Microsoft and Zillow Group. He is now the Director of Engineering and Head of AI at Compass, where he is working on bringing Artificial Intelligence to Agent Intelligence at Real Estate.

In the show, Robert will tell you about:

The impact Compass are making within real estate,

Challenges they are solving with AI and Data Science,

Interesting projects within search, computer vision & more,

Setting up a successful team structure,

How COVID-19 has impacted the team’s productivity,

and What he looks for when hiring candidates at Compass

Today's guest is Ian Trinder, Director of Cybersecurity, Privacy & Forensics at PwC Ireland. With over ten years of experience in the field, Ian has successfully delivered engagements in the areas of IT Governance Risk Compliance, Cyber Security Program Maturity Assessments, Third-Party Risk Management, IT Assurance and Project Assurance.

In the show today, Ian will give an overview of the 3rd Party Risk Management lifecycle. He will also discuss the importance of establishing clear guidelines and frameworks that set businesses up for success and how Covid-19 has changed the landscape for Third-Party Risk Management as well as some useful tips.

During the episode, Ian will also discuss:

The importance of third party risk management,

The role of TPRM within Cybersecurity,

How the challenges of managing third parties has evolved,

The impact of COVID-19 in third-party risk management,

& How should companies respond to COVID-19 in a TPRM context.

Today's guest is Adam Bahlke, Chief Technology Officer at Motor AI. Founded in 2017, Motor AI is the only German autonomous driving company specialized in addressing the safety and legal requirements set by the EU. Headquartered in Berlin, Motor AI's international team is composed of experts in computer vision and cognitive neuroscience.

Motor AI is building a cognitive intelligence-based system is capable of making decisions in complex, urban traffic. In contrast to trained-model approaches, the system can explainably reach a decision in a completely new situation. This offers two great advantages: it is certifiable under international safety standards and does not need to be trained on infinite scenarios.

In the show, Adam will tell you about:

The motivation for setting up Motor AI,

Challenges still facing the autonomous driving industry,

What makes Motor AI different from their competitors,

Overcoming legal issues, such as driver and sensor data,

The role of XAI to these problems,

and New technologies that will impact Autonomous Driving

Today's guest is Renee Ernst, Senior Lead Data Scientist at General Mills. Headquartered in Minneapolis, General Mills reshaping the future of food. As one of the world’s leading food companies, General Mills operates in more than 100 countries and markets more than 100 consumer brands, including Cheerios, Nature Valley, Betty Crocker, Yoplait, Old El Paso and many more.

Renee is an experienced Data Science leader with extensive experience using machine learning and predictive analytics to deliver solutions that provide tangible business value. She is highly skilled in the tools needed to create productionalized machine learning models and is a continuous learner with an always-growing proficiency in Data Science technologies and methodologies.

In the show, Renee will tell you about:

Her journey to joining General Mills,

The evolution of data science within the company,

Challenges the Data Science team needed to overcome,

Plans for further growth & what their future looks like,

Why she enjoys working with General Mills,

and Driving a collaborative culture in the company

Today's guest is Eoin Byrne, Cluster Manager at Cyber Ireland. Cyber Ireland is an initiative to establish a national cybersecurity cluster in Ireland, which is facilitated by the Cork Institute of Technology and supported by IDA Ireland. It provides a collective voice to represent the needs of the cybersecurity sector across the country and will address key challenges including skills needs, research and the development of a national community which connects industry, academia and government.

Cyber Ireland is based on cluster-style initiatives which operates across Europe and internationally, that have proven extremely successful in enhancing innovation, growth & competitiveness of regions and the companies that are part of the cluster. For the cluster to be successful, it needs to be industry-driven, fueled by third-level education and supported by the Government. With the co-operation of these three pillars, the cluster will be able to reach its full potential.

In the show, Eoin will discuss:

The benefits of setting up a tech cluster,

Why he decided to set up a Cybersecurity cluster in Ireland,

The successes of their work so far in the past two years,

Addressing the skills shortage within Cybersecurity,

How the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted Cyber Ireland,

and Their goals in strengthening Ireland’s Cybersecurity ecosystem

Today's guest is Peyman Pouryekta, Chief Technology Officer at Spectrm, who are the conversational marketing platform that powers many of the world's leading chatbots. From disruptors to Fortune 100 companies, brands from all over the globe rely on Spectrm’s platform, conversational AI and customer success to design an exceptional experience for their customers.

The future of commerce is conversational and the opportunities are limitless. It is Spectrm's mission to give you superpowers to build a bot that your customers love. By unlocking, its full potential by combining your creativity with our powerful marketing technology and experienced human touch, Spectrm empowers you with all the tools you need to crush your marketing goals.

In the show, Peyman will discuss:

Spectrm’s work within performance marketing,

Taking Spectrm to the next level by increasing their engineering capabilities,

How their chatbot stands out from the competition,

Using customer insights to deliver a personalised experience,

The benefits of in-house AI technologies and entity extraction,

How they built a performance monitoring chatbot without data,

and New trends that will impact the chatbot and NLP space.